Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...stations years to open up to African American hiring and African American actors and anchors. But the television coverage of events in Virginia was decidedly different from the print media...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Justice Research Project," Inter-American Policy Studies Occasional Papers, no. 4 (Austin, TX: Inter-American Policy Studies Program, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs: Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...of people and encouraged their commitments to a narrowly configured version of American nationalism.11Susan Tenneriello, Spectacle Culture and American Identity: 1815–1940 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 2–14. In its heyday,...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...increasingly suburban, its African American public school students remain isolated in majority-minority schools. By 2013, African American students attending public schools within the Atlanta MSA were more likely to attend...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...same disease causes fatal ravages in the Philippines and the Southern States, hence all Americans are concerned."80Adam Haeselbarth, "The Puerto Rican Government's Fight with Anemia," American Monthly Review of Reviews...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...they played in American cultural life. Though he does not address Cohen or Halcomb, his chapter on the relationship between Leadbelly and John and Alan Lomax provides an interesting comparison...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...support of cross-class women's organizations that offered educational resources and information about strategy and tactics. Groups like the National Consumers League (NCL) provided information about how to organize boycotts and...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Soul Train in 1997, The Carolinian, a Raleigh-based African-American newspaper, commented that Teenage Frolics "gave the Hollywood production a run for its money in these parts."48Ibid. Soul Train and American...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Funding of Private Schools: Private School Enrollment in the South and the Nation (Southern Education Foundation, 2016). Students of color in this map include African American, Hispanic, and Native American...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...American Community Survey, 2003. In public education, the Memphis city schools report a high school graduation rate of 48.5 percent, one of the worst in the United States. Ranked fortieth...